I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.